During a recent broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) answered a question concerning whether Iran should be punished over the deaths of American troops, going on to say that “the blame for those 18 servicemembers’ deaths lays at the feet of the president of the United States,” employing a typical Democrat strategy to blame President Donald Trump for anything and everything that goes wrong in the country.
Wolf Blitzer, the show’s co-host, asked Duckworth, “As someone who has fought and sacrificed so much for our country during your time serving with the U.S. military in Iraq, how are you reflecting on this loss of American life, and should the U.S. punish Iran right now for those deaths, as President Trump is suggesting?”
Duckworth started off her answer by saying, “Well, first and foremost, Trump is the one who started this war. Trump is the one who started this war without any actual plan for how he was going to execute the mission. So, the blame for those 18 servicemembers’ deaths lays at the feet of the president of the United States.”
“It sits on the Resolute Desk in front of him, in that gilded Marie Antoinette of an Oval Office that he’s turned it into. He brags that he doesn’t think that Americans’ financial situations are important to him as he tries to hand Iran hundreds of billions of dollars, and he hasn’t taken the responsibility for the death of those servicemembers,” she continued, according to a report from Breitbart.
The Illinois Democrat then referred to U.S. troops as a national treasure before continuing to trash President Trump. “Look, our servicemen and women are the most important national treasure we have in this nation, and before we choose to ask them to sacrifice on behalf of each and every one of us, we need to be sure that we know what we’re doing when we start a war.”
Duckworth then said that before troops are sent into battle, there needs to be a plan, claiming that Trump lacked such a plan before launching his offensive efforts against Iran. “When we send them into war, we better have a plan, we better know how we’re going to execute it, and we better know what the conditions are for the end of the mission. Trump has not done any of that,” she told Blitzer.
Duckworth then took an opportunity to slam Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, calling him an incompetent military leader. “And he also appointed the most incompetent secretary of defense in our nation’s history, who, all he seems to be worried about is testosterone levels in our troops, instead of making sure that he actually has a plan to execute this mission in Iran and ending it before even more Americans get killed,” she said.
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“Before our economy craters even further, and before we alienate even more allies and set Iran up to have nuclear weapons. This whole thing has been an absolute disaster, and it shows what happens when you have an incompetent commander-in-chief who’s being assisted by an incompetent secretary of defense,” the Illinois senator concluded.
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